fweespee_ch

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by fweespee_ch 10y ago
> What, exactly, should Walmart's response to shoplifting be? The article seems to make a point of the low dollar-value of some of the items stolen vs. how much the police spend arresting the subjects. I fail to see why the value of
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by fweespee_ch 10y ago
This is sadly one of those situations where the guy's heart is in the right place but he is simply wrong on the number. $11-15[1] by 2020 is a reasonable national range for a minimum wage with certain states/localities raising i
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HomeJoy is back as HomeAGlow(homeaglow.com)
3 points by fweespee_ch 10y ago|1 comments
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by fweespee_ch 10y ago
> Microsoft has retroactively removed the ability of companies to turn off access to the Windows Store in its Windows 10 Pro version. Yes but by "upsell" you mean "extort by way of feature removal after the product was pur
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by fweespee_ch 10y ago
> It's trivially easy for Google to do this already without the NHS data, and they don't face prison time for doing it. See all the pregnant teens outed by supermarket loyalty cards for other examples. And how many members of t
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by fweespee_ch 10y ago
Well, they'd also need the codebook where you store the passphrase to get the other half of the password. So if you change the master password regularly, they'd need to hack a database in that time window and steal your codebook.
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by fweespee_ch 10y ago
1) I have a disagreement with bait and switch data privacy laws that are publicly sold as anonymous when everyone can tell from the implementation details that they are not. 2) You asked why they were astonished. Well, #1 is why. Most peopl
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by fweespee_ch 10y ago
Its psuedononymous data the NHS has previously admitted can be deanonymized given sufficient effort but such deanonymization carries criminal and civil penalties.
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by fweespee_ch 10y ago
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-16021240 > "All necessary safeguards would be in place to ensure protection of patients' details - the data will be anonymised and the process will be carefully and robustly regu
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by fweespee_ch 10y ago
> Why are people astonished? Because politicians keep making promises in regards to privacy that they don't keep in regards to "confidential" information. Similarly, most of the medical value from such information [e.g. Fr
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by fweespee_ch 10y ago
> To me that's just bizarre. It's like Trump saying he'd be a great president and Obama meeting with him and saying he's the real deal, it'd just wouldn't happen. It would happen if Gavin was Satoshi. Gavin
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The Fiscal Ship(fiscalship.org)
1 points by fweespee_ch 10y ago|0 comments
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by fweespee_ch 10y ago
Massive capex.
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by fweespee_ch 10y ago
> About 2 years ago the tenor of the publications shifted from libertarian to more and more reactionary (bordering on proto-fascist). When I skip the articles nowdays, I think that the authors have no problem with authoritarianism, as lo
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by fweespee_ch 10y ago
> (Bloomberg LP competes with Zero Hedge in providing financial news and information.) Does anyone else feel this is particularly generous? ZeroHedge is borderline conspiracy theorist nonsense surrounded by occasionally correct financial
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by fweespee_ch 10y ago
There is a different between "legal to do" and "within one's jurisdiction". They are clearly lying through indirection unfortunately. :P
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by fweespee_ch 10y ago
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/26/business/amazons-shrinking... I think a couple years ago they got tired of their stock tanking every time they reported a lower profit than previous quarters.
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by fweespee_ch 10y ago
> You assume a constant price for gasoline, which is a bold assumption, given that the oil markets are currently gyrating wildly, and have been for some time - we're likely to see prices at the pump go up by orders of magnitude over
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by fweespee_ch 10y ago
Yep. I use encrypted drives for my financial information and other sensitive information I store on behalf of family (e.g. legal docs), etc. I wouldn't have a desire to reveal that either.
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by fweespee_ch 10y ago
> Hiring in CS / IT is massively more objective compared to most of other fields. That is the illusion many people have convinced themselves of but literally 0 of my coworkers could answer the questions I was asked simply because do
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by fweespee_ch 10y ago
Employed properly, drone strikes against legitimate targets [e.g. Military bases, arms shipments] are perfectly reasonable and effective. Really the only problem we have is the fact the US keeps using it as a tool of assassination which res
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by fweespee_ch 10y ago
> Do I want to see booters online? Of course not. > But if CloudFlare were to shut them down without due process, that would damage their credibility - to the point where I would feel uncomfortable doing business with them. The proble
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by fweespee_ch 10y ago
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2011/06/yet_another_p... > Computer disks and USB sticks were dropped in parking lots of government buildings and private contractors, and 60% of the people who
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by fweespee_ch 10y ago
Honestly, large scale nuclear weapon deployment is going to kill alot of "us" so symbolically killing one of us is a better representation of reality. There is never going to be a one-sided nuclear exchange when a substantial numb
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by fweespee_ch 10y ago
Did you bother to read the posts where I offered old accounts and/or the fact I cycle through accounts? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11440951 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11377425 I mea
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by fweespee_ch 10y ago
I'm glad to see this post getting upvoted because I've had to argue with people repeatedly on HN who claim its private / a valid authentication factor. Look folks, maybe as part of some second or third factor it might be okay
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by fweespee_ch 10y ago
https://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/04/13/snaps-for-classic-ubu... > The security mechanisms in snap packages allow us to open up the platform for much faster iteration across all of our flavours as snap appl
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by fweespee_ch 10y ago
> Was there something on the phone what made it worth it? It doesn't matter to me tbh. They want to investigate, they can. I just don't want them to be able to "scale" their investigations like they seem to want so th
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Uber to pay up to $100M in driver status suits(usatoday.com)
1 points by fweespee_ch 10y ago|0 comments
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Uber hit with record $11.4M fine in Pennsylvania(reuters.com)
1 points by fweespee_ch 10y ago|0 comments

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